Exploding toy bomb



p scribed and claimed.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS-F. DUCK, OF`DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

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To all @l1/omit may concern.'

Be it known that I, Louis F. DUCK, a citizen of the United States, residingat De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful i explosion of the vcap to throw al feathered plug up into the air and which feathered plug then descends and whirls while descending, so as to afford amusement as well as to make a loud explosion, the invention consisting in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter de- In the accompanying drawings: Figure l 1s a vertical sectional view of my improved toy aerial bomb showing the same before the explosion occurs.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same after the explosion occurs. v

The body Al of the bomb is here shown as substantially spherical and with a neck 2 in the upper side, the neck being provided with a bore 3 in the bottom of which one or more paper caps, indicated at 4, are to be placed.

A plug 5 is fitted snugly and frictionally in the' bore and is provided with an upwardly extending shaft 6 on which is a disk 7. A head 8, which is preferably'made of rubber, is slidably engaged upon the shaft above the disk 7 and engages against said Specification of Letters Patent.

k.Application filed-December 13, 1919.. Serial No. 344,641.

Patented Aug. 23, 1921,.

disk, and is provided in the upper side with three or any suitable number of feathers 9 which are so arranged as to cause the plug to whirl when it passes through the' air.

Vhen the bomb hasbeen provided with the paper cap or caps and the plug has been inserted in the bore thebomb should then be thrown up into the air or dropped from a height onto a hard pavement or other surface. The force` of the impact causes the plug and the bomb body to explode Vthe caps with a loud report, the force of the eXplosion serving to throw the shafted and featherVV headed 'plug up into the air, the plug first and the feathers Vdownward and after thus ascending the plug reverses and descends yto the ground with the feathers uppermost and also describing whirling motion, `caused Y by the feathers, so that the bombs serve 4to also give an interesting, an amusing aerial display as well as to cause the loud explo-v `sio s Having thus described my invention, I

claim: Y p l v An aerial toy bomb comprising a relatively heavy base formed in its topvv with a recess for the reception of caps,v a plunger slidably engaged within said recess and carrying at its upper end a shaft formed intermediate its ends with a disk, and a'projectile member including a base slidably engaged upon the upper end of said shaft in abutting relation to the disk and carrying guide feathers.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LOUISy F. DUCK. 

